Grodno Governorate

Grodno Governorate was a province of the Russian Empire that existed from 1802 to 1918. The governorate's capital was Grodno (Hrodna, Belarus), and it was established during the partition of Lithuania into numerous smaller provinces in 1802, seven years after the partition of Poland. In 1906, the governorate had a population of 1,826,600 people. It became a part of Poland and Lithuania after World War I and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.